Chapter Summaries

During his seclusion beneath Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing discovered and killed a high-dimensional parasite feeding on Progenitor Energy. He returned to his cultivation, aware that the parasite’s destruction had stirred the Pen Holder hidden in the Chaos Sea.

• Chu Qing sensed an itch at the end of his spine and traced it to a worm feeding on Progenitor Energy in Stone Ridge Mountain’s waste disposal zone.
• Chu Qing stopped the worm from transmitting its coordinates and pursued it through broken worlds to a causal dead end.
• The worm tried to bargain, but Chu Qing seized its true body and crushed it with the Overlord Spear and [One-Way Pass].
• Chu Qing watched the parasite decay into nutrients, called it the first, and returned to his unfinished seclusion as the Pen Holder stirred with rage.

Chu Qing pursued a strange worm through the fissures of Stone Ridge Mountain, destroying its illusions and clones before killing it. He recovered the worm’s pulsing core, which contained a Harvest Table clue, and began refining it.

• Chu Qing tracked the worm through spatial cracks and shattered the ancient-civilization illusion it used to hide.
• The worm released tens of thousands of clones, but Chu Qing suppressed and dispersed them with his One-Way Pass trait.
• The worm attacked Chu Qing with a Forced Annihilation beam, but he endured it and pursued the creature into a causal dead end.
• Chu Qing isolated the worm from all communications and refused its offer to trade information about the Harvest Table for its life.
• Chu Qing crushed the worm’s head, retrieved its pulsing core, and began refining it with purple fire.

Chu Qing broke open the gray core and discovered that Stone Ridge Mountain was a harvesting experiment marked for cleanup, while powerful figures beyond the world monitored it. He erased the core’s remains, then descended toward the sleeping True Heaven to seek a way to resist the Pen Holder, threatening to use the world’s will if it would not cooperate.

• Chu Qing shattered the gray core and saw its records of a destroyed experimental world and Stone Ridge Mountain’s designation as a Seed-Fire Harvesting Experimental Field.
• Chu Qing glimpsed figures beyond the world and realized they were monitoring the experiment, then gained the Eye symbol on his Emperor’s Seat.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to erase all traces of the core and used Reverse Alteration Burial to turn its remains into dry bones.
• Chu Qing identified the sleeping True Heaven as a possible source of protection from the Pen Holder and threatened to throw it into the millstone if it refused to make a deal.
• Chu Qing took up the Overlord Spear and descended into the forbidden depths as Stone Ridge Mountain sank by three tenths.

Chu Qing unified 360,000 cultivation paths in the Fire Pit and became a True One Progenitor, while Nangong Xue advanced to Pseudo-Progenitor through their resonance. He ordered Stone Ridge Mountain to enter Level Three combat readiness and descended thirty thousand zhang to confront the hidden “family head.”

• Chu Qing endured the gray core’s restructuring as the Profession Column warned of high-dimensional logic intrusion.
• Chu Qing unified 360,000 paths, dyed his Golden Blood purple, and broke through to the True One Progenitor Realm.
• Nangong Xue resonated with Chu Qing’s aura and advanced to Pseudo-Progenitor.
• Chu Qing summoned the Overlord Spear and ordered Nangong Xue to relay his combat-readiness instructions to the mountain.
• Chu Qing leapt into the depths of Stone Ridge Mountain to seek the hidden “family head.”

Chu Qing discovered that the Scribe planned to harvest his world in less than five hundred years and found Heaven as an unmonitored vulnerability. He prepared Stone Ridge Mountain for war and sealed its gates before turning toward the Nine Nether.

• Chu Qing examined the Harvest Table and learned that the world was designated for harvesting into a Return to Void Pearl in 493 years.
• Chu Qing found Heaven in a blind spot beyond the Scribe’s monitoring and realized the race to find it would decide the world’s fate.
• Chu Qing gave Yu Ji and Madam Jin strengthening pills and ordered them to guard the study and stay alive.
• Chu Qing watched Stone Ridge Mountain’s defenses being built as World Ships burned along the Star River Path.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to shut the mountain gates and grind approaching outsiders to powder, then focused on the entrance to the Nine Nether.

Chu Qing confronted the Ancestor of Strength, who claimed Stone Ridge Mountain and threatened to kill him. Chu Qing defeated him by stripping away his strength and Dao, then turned him into a stone block and sent him to the bottom of the Gods and Devils Great Wall.

• The Ancestor of Strength emerged from a rift and demanded that Chu Qing leave Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing recognized the Ancestor of Strength and beckoned him to attack, seeking a powerful opponent to test himself against.
• The Ancestor of Strength swung his stone axe at Chu Qing, who stopped it with his fist and damaged the blade.
• Chu Qing captured the Ancestor of Strength's strength logic and simplified it, leaving him weak and withered.
• Chu Qing petrified the Ancestor of Strength, compressing his body, soul, and karma into a stone block and sending it to the bottom of the Gods and Devils Great Wall.

Chu Qing sealed Stone Ridge Mountain’s fissure from the Chaos Sea, then descended through the mountain’s living meridians in search of the hidden World Will. He found its palace deep below and prepared to confront the being he blamed for stealing his power.

• Chu Qing shattered the High-Dimensional Parasitic Worm’s core and used its shadow to shield Stone Ridge Mountain’s underground from the Chaos Sea.
• Chu Qing ordered Shang Xie to guard the gray film and use the Heavenly Prides as expendable materials if the seal began to fail.
• Chu Qing plunged into the fissure and navigated the vast meridians, where he saw visions of past eras and the destruction wrought by the great azure hand.
• Chu Qing followed the soul-draining pull to a palace made from shrunken worlds and recognized the heartbeat of the escaped World Will.
• Chu Qing raised the Overlord Spear and stepped onto the white light, declaring that it was time to collect the rent.

As the great tribulation approached, Chu Qing rejected the Ten Thousand Treasures Alliance’s plea for refuge and reached Ancestor Perfection through Liuli’s guidance. After the Program Writer appeared, Chu Qing sealed Stone Ridge Mountain and leaped into the deepest fissure leading to the Nine Nether.

• Countless Minor Worlds burned themselves to ashes as Nangong Xue told Chu Qing that the Ten Thousand Treasures Alliance offered riches for a place to land, and he refused them.
• Chu Qing entered his monthly revival with Liuli, endured her painful transmission, and reached True One · Ancestor Perfection.
• Chu Qing split the void with a gesture and detected the Program Writer descending to erase him.
• Chu Qing transformed Stone Ridge Mountain into a sealed stronghold and ordered Nangong Xue to close its gate.
• Chu Qing silenced the system interface and leaped into the deepest fissure leading to the Nine Nether.

Chu Qing descended beneath Stone Ridge Mountain and confronted the woman who controlled its hidden realm. He overpowered and began assimilating her, then formed a dark-purple seal as he declared himself Patriarch.

• Chu Qing assigned Nangong, Madam Shi, Madam Jin, and Heavenly Slave to protect his operations before entering the spatial loophole.
• Chu Qing tore through the Law Barrier and reached a deep underground altar, where he found a woman lying in wait.
• The woman awakened and attacked Chu Qing with spears formed from runes of order, but his five Divine Repositories absorbed them.
• Chu Qing pierced the woman's protective Golden Light, seized her shoulder, and poured Purple True Blood into her to assimilate the world's administrator.
• After the woman collapsed in despair, Chu Qing formed a dark-purple seal and turned away, calling himself Patriarch.

Chu Qing defeated the World Will, forced her into submission as his Heavenly Slave, and gained full dominion over the Nine Nether. He left the underground altar and ordered Nangong Xue to open all the doors so they could forge another sun amid the great calamity.

• True Heaven tried to restart the era and destroy Chu Qing, but he used his Purple True Blood to reverse the changes and overpower her.
• Chu Qing crushed True Heaven’s defenses, chained her with his Progenitor Edict, and made her kneel as his vassal.
• The system declared the Hidden Heaven quest complete and awarded Chu Qing 100% World Dominion Authority.
• Chu Qing named the defeated World Will Heavenly Slave and left her kneeling at the abandoned altar.
• Chu Qing called to Nangong Xue and ordered her to open all the doors so they could forge another sun.

Chu Qing reversed True Heaven’s Era Restart and overwhelmed her, then tried to force the Abyss seed into her as she began detonating herself. With Stone Ridge Mountain threatened by the Black Tide, Chu Qing invoked Liuli and opened a third eye.

• True Heaven activated Era Restart, forcing Chu Qing’s body to age and his Progenitor Status to collapse.
• Chu Qing used the System to reverse the effects of the restart and simplify True Heaven’s defensive logic.
• Chu Qing struck True Heaven’s dharma idol, shattered it, and seized her by the throat.
• Chu Qing removed the Abyss seed from his chest and ordered True Heaven to swallow it.
• True Heaven began detonating herself as the Black Tide seized Stone Ridge Mountain, and Chu Qing invoked Liuli and opened a third eye.

Chu Qing perfected his Dragon-Defying Tyrant Body, claimed Stone Ridge Mountain’s full blessing, and revived the land as a refuge. As the first impact of the great calamity arrived, he prepared to face it with the Overlord Spear.

• Heavenly Slave warned Chu Qing that the outer World Anchors were about to break, while he discovered his perfected body and its power to deflect karmic attacks.
• Chu Qing eased Nangong Xue’s suffering from his overwhelming pressure and announced that the Heavenly Dao had submitted.
• Chu Qing ordered Heavenly Slave to open the World Backups, restoring Stone Ridge Mountain with Spirit Springs, living trees, and Longevity Grass.
• Chu Qing sharpened the Overlord Spear as a system warning announced that the first impact of the great calamity would arrive in sixty seconds.
• Nangong Xue sealed Stone Ridge Mountain’s golden barrier, and Chu Qing faced a rain of stars crashing down from the sky.

Chu Qing and his allies defended Stone Ridge Mountain from a three-hour rain of burning world fragments, turning the wreckage and invading Old World Remnant Souls into nourishment for the mountain. After spotting a pattern that marked the mountain, Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to prepare for a second wave and declared that they would attack the Scribe.

• Chu Qing directed Madam Jin and Madam Shi to defend the east and west sides of Stone Ridge Mountain as the golden barrier shattered.
• Chu Qing slowed and shattered a planet-sized wreck, while Stone Ridge Mountain's Grindstone drew the debris into its Waste Disposal Zone.
• Chu Qing erased the Old World Remnant Souls hiding among the wreckage, and the mountain grew stronger through the three-hour onslaught.
• Chu Qing reassured Heavenly Slave that he would witness an ending unlike the one written by the Scribe.
• Chu Qing recognized that the wreckage's trajectories formed a mark around Stone Ridge Mountain and told Nangong Xue to prepare for the second wave and an attack on the Scribe.

The Legion of the Old Days descended on Stone Ridge Mountain, and Chu Qing unleashed his Progenitor Status to erase the undead while Nangong Xue and Cui Moyang defended the flanks. The legion’s collapse seemed inevitable, but a figure in the distant darkness turned to a new page as Chu Qing prepared to continue fighting.

• The Legion of the Old Days fell from the torn sky, led by a Bone Giant who cleaved the Chaos Sea with an Ancient Bronze Sword.
• Nangong Xue activated the Twelve Palaces array, sending one hundred million Golden Core maidservants to clash with the undead.
• Chu Qing charged into the legion and used his Progenitor Status to erase its fighters, then expanded a halo that wiped out thousands more.
• Cui Moyang severed the legion’s flank with her Red Light cloak as the Bone Leader attacked Chu Qing from behind.
• Chu Qing rebounded the Bone Leader’s sword strike and prepared to attack again while Stone Ridge Mountain absorbed the undead’s remains.
• In the distant darkness, an unseen figure turned to a new page as purple flame rose at Chu Qing’s fingertip.

Chu Qing fortified Stone Ridge Mountain with soul-ash pillars and a Great Wall strengthened by Heavenly Slave’s divided soul, then prepared defenses against the Scribes. As a white World Ship carrying their aura approached, he declared his territory forbidden to hostile forces and readied for battle.

• Chu Qing transformed soul ash into 360,000 Zombie-Suppressing Piles that blocked the Star River Path.
• Nangong Xue reported that she had become the Heavenly Demon Progenitor.
• Chu Qing took a wisp of Heavenly Slave’s divided soul and used it to strengthen the Gods and Devils Great Wall.
• Chu Qing folded space around Stone Ridge Mountain into a void trap and carved “Kill” on a stele to erase malicious intruders.
• Chu Qing spotted a white World Ship approaching upstream, and Nangong Xue identified the aura of the Scribes aboard it.

Chu Qing drove the mutated Black Diamond Dragon Ship toward Origin, crushing three Chaos Patrol Ships that tried to stop him. After glimpsing a soulless, program-like version of himself beyond a mysterious door, he rejected being turned into system logic and prepared to confront the scriptwriter at Origin.

• Chu Qing found that the Bone Black Ship had mutated into a dense Black Diamond Dragon Ship and used the Harvest Table to set a course for Origin.
• The Black Diamond Dragon Ship smashed through three Chaos Patrol Ships that demanded an exemption order.
• Chu Qing used [All Things Simplified] to peer beyond the Progenitor Realm and saw a tiny, Golden Light incarnation of himself embodying pure system logic.
• Chu Qing spat out true blood and purple fragments, then vowed to kill rather than become a program.
• Chu Qing reached a vast vortex of golden characters, called Nangong and Madam Jin to ready their blades, and steered the ship toward Origin.

Chu Qing defeated the scholar who tried to write his death, then learned that Stone Ridge Mountain was a world-ending grindstone from the previous epoch. After the Black Diamond Dragon Ship mutated, Chu Qing ordered it onward toward Origin, where he intended to confront the one who wrote the script.

• A white-robed scholar emerged and tried to kill Chu Qing by writing “death” into the void.
• Chu Qing summoned his dharma idol and simplified the death character into harmless black mist.
• Chu Qing shattered the scholar’s feather pen and struck the scholar until he collapsed into burning pages.
• Chu Qing read a fragment revealing that Stone Ridge Mountain was a grindstone meant to consume the old epoch and nourish the new one.
• The Black Diamond Dragon Ship absorbed the scholar’s energy, mutated, and gained the trait Unrecordable Walker.
• Chu Qing told Nangong Xue to watch the grindstone, sharpened his spear, and ordered the ship toward the core of the calamity.

Chu Qing absorbed the Scribe's remnant and completed his Dragon-Defying Tyrant Body, gaining the World-Ending Grinding Mill Field. He set course for Origin to confront the harvesters and the one who wrote the script.

• Chu Qing swallowed the gray ink left by the Scribe's shattered clone and endured its violent clash with his Dragon-Defying True Blood.
• Chu Qing reached 100% Dragon-Defying Tyrant Body completion, gained the World-Ending Grinding Mill Field, and ground chaotic sludge into pure Spiritual Energy.
• Chu Qing told himself that the system was only his tool, then stepped out and relieved Nangong Xue's crushing pressure with a wisp of Purple True Blood.
• Chu Qing saw the gates of Origin ahead and ordered Nangong Xue to tell Madam Jin to stoke the furnace to its maximum.
• Chu Qing drew the Overlord Spear, declared he would grind up those who wrote the script, and led the Black Diamond Dragon Ship toward Origin.

Chu Qing completed the Dragon-Defying Tyrant Body and organized his allies to prepare Stone Ridge Mountain for the coming battle. He drove the black ship through the Wall of Origin and stepped onto Origin as the Scribe’s erasure program began.

• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to monitor the riverway for Harvester activity, Madam Shi to grind incoming threats into nourishment, and Madam Jin to refine the remains into Progenitor Golden Cores.
• Chu Qing commanded Heavenly Slave to conceal Stone Ridge Mountain from the Scribe’s observers.
• Chu Qing accelerated the Black Diamond Dragon Ship toward the Wall of Origin, while a system warning announced that the Scribe had detected a logical loophole and begun an erasure program.
• Chu Qing charged through the Wall of Origin with the Overlord Spear and stepped onto Origin to confront the Creator.

Chu Qing broke into the Land of Origin and dismantled the Scribe’s Logic Sword Formation with his Progenitor-level powers. After sharing a brief moment with Nangong Xue and Madam Jin, he headed toward the Hall of the Scribe as a presence beyond the Progenitor level began to awaken.

• Chu Qing crossed the Wall of Origin with the Black Diamond Dragon Ship and used Simplification logic to erase the Land of Origin’s decree forbidding flight.
• Nine Ghostwriters raised the Heavenly Book Sword Formation and sent Logic Sword Qi bearing fatal assertions against Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing crushed one Ghostwriter and flattened the other eight and their sword formation into dead ink.
• Madam Jin offered Chu Qing tea, while Nangong Xue wiped logic ash from his hand and urged him to protect Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing sensed a decaying presence beyond the Progenitor level awakening near the Hall of the Scribe and set off toward it with the Overlord Spear.